Julia Barbee / Before/After Scenting New York
Over the course of this daily performance, a single garment will be scented with perfumes – one for each day – and worn by the artist while walking the east-west corridor of 14th Street. During these routine walks, she will collect fragments of language from found literature, popular culture and conversation on the street. Based on historical relationships between prayer, perfume and poetry, Barbee will compose a litany for the title of each daily performance. Finally, the garment worn during the performance will be crystallized in a solution preserving its, but abstracting its form.

Saturday-Sunday, October 1-9 from 11am-3pm
Performances will begin at 14th Street near the East River and ends at the Hudson River.

artist info

Julia Barbee earned her Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from California State University, Long Beach. Her work is a process-based study examining the visible, the ephemeral, the auditory—and the temporal marks of identity. Scent is the platform for her sculptural performance, experimentation, quasi-anthropological study, and non-representational self-portraiture.